Sentence examples for feed feathers from inspiring English sources

Adults feed feathers to the young, establishing this plug shortly after hatching.

The chewing lice of birds feed on feathers, or on feathers, blood, and tissue fluids, or on fluids only.

Brueelia, as other ischnoceran lice, feed on feathers, whereas amblyceran Myrsidea include host body fluids in their diet.

Feathers that do not end up in landfill are typically used to produce animal feed called feather meal.

True to their name, feather lice feed primarily on feathers, secretions, dead skin and other dermal "debris" [ 9].

While there's not a substantial nutritional difference between these eggs and conventional eggs, vegetarian eggs appeal to consumers who are turned off by some of the animal byproducts that can be included in conventional chicken feed, like feather meal, chicken litter, pork and cattle byproducts and "spent hen meal" (ground up dead hens).

[I observe] a fly (Olfersia) living on the booby, and a tick which must have come here as a parasite on the birds; a small brown moth, belonging to a genus that feeds on feathers: a beetle (Quedieus) and a woodlouse from beneath the dung; and lastly numerous spiders, which I suppose prey on these small attendants and scavengers on the waterfowl.

Feather mites of the genus Analges feed predominantly on feathers and are strictly host specific [ 36].

Numerous behavioral traits, such as feeding behavior, feather pecking or stress susceptibility, are also heritable [ 21].

The fat finds its way into cosmetics and soaps; blood, bones and viscera become cattle feed; and hydrolyzed feathers often end up in dog food bowls.

Members of the ischnoceran lice are parasitic on birds, feed mostly on feathers and dead skin, and have radiated spectacularly onto birds and mammals.